Thinks To Check and Remember:

-Your photo is in RGB color mode

-Your photo is in 8bit color mode

-This action has been tested and works on Photoshop CS6, CC to CC2020 (tested in the English version)

-You are running the English version of Photoshop.

-If you are experiencing errors, try resetting your Photoshop preferences. To do this, hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting up Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences/settings file.

-Avoid using small resolution images. For the best results, use Photos between 1500px – 3000px high/wide. Chances of the action running into errors will increase the lower you go under 1000px high/wide. –Photos with good color variation and contrast will work best.

-Avoid brushing onto mainly black areas on a photo. The effect is not very prominent when applied to mostly dark areas of a photo.

-Remember that adjusting your photo resolution will determine how wide the parts spread out. If you run the action at 72DPI, then the parts will be quite close – if you run it at 300DPI, the parts will be spread much wider. Please refer to the video tutorial for a demonstration of this.

How To Install The Action:

-Inside Photoshop, go to the ‘Window’ menu and select ‘Actions’. A window will now appear to the right-hand side.

-Inside the Actions window, click on the top right-hand corner icon to reveal the drop-down menu. From here select ‘Load Actions…’. Select the action which came with the download.

-The action will now appear in the actions panel.

How To Use The Action:

-Open a photo to work with

-Leave the photo layer locked and set as the ‘Background’. To set your photo as the Background, select your photo layer and go to the menu ‘Layer’ — ‘New’ — ‘Layer from Background..’. Please refer to the video tutorial if you need more help here.

-Create a new layer above the background layer called ‘brush’. MUST be all lowercase.

-With the ‘brush’ layer selected, brush onto the areas of your photo that you want to apply the effect to.